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The size and many features are attractive. It would be interesting to see it as a Cyber vehicle with all straight edge stainless steel and glass...
I expect to see an actual CyberCar that shares a lot with that! It would be an ideal combination with a million mile drive train and battery pack...
There is an important difference between this deposit and the Model 3. The Model 3 had no checkoff for adding Full Self Driving at a fixed price -...
Exactly. A lot of the automotive press is referring to this as a unibody simply because it’s not a body on chassis and those are the only two...
I’m curious about what might be done with the onboard air compressor there for the suspension. Tires that maintain their own ideal air pressure...
It would crumple in front or rear collisions that have a lot more energy than a sledgehammer. Rigidity in side collisions is important for...
I suppose it depends on what you expect the surface to look like. I assume the surface of these trucks is more like a pot or flatware and less...
It seems to be made by a process like steel origami. Current car body repair is expensive because the stamped body panels made of thin soft steel...
THAT would make it show scratches easily. This is 301 Stainless like SpaceX Starship or my kitchen pots and utensils, it doesn’t show scratches...
I think the genius of this design is in the new approach to body manufacturing that it arises from. It’s not an elaborate steel Endo Skeleton that...
No. Part of the brilliance of this design that let’s Tesla make it for that little is no paint shop, no metal stamping. It’s stainless steel...
Crumple zones are mostly about front and rear impacts and a more rigid stainless steel skin doesn’t change this much, it still deforms under...
I don’t think it’s better as pickup design because it adds nothing functionally and probably screws up the airflow they designed for, however I’d...
[ATTACH] Black Pearl (yacht) - Wikipedia This yacht is almost there. Still has Diesel engine though. Bigger battery packs and the next iteration...
Tesla has the ambition of getting Autopilot advanced to Feature Complete Full Self Driving by 2020. At that point they seem to need a special sort...
These points seem pretty much beyond argument. After 1920 and accelerating after 1950, much of the US was designed around cars and this produced...
I think the biggest technical difference is that Starlink is designed to be an independent new internet in space and Iridium is not. Iridium just...
Plus it allows the system to continue to work just as was emphasized in the original video, moving a variety of vehicles at high speeds under the...
Loop is distinct from Hyperloop but part of the same system idea. The tunnels for Loop can hold a vacuum potentially so stretches of tunnel can be...
Think of it as an extension of the Tesla Network in busy urban settings working off the same app. Eventually I think the intent is for those Pods...
Keep in mind the Pod has the same footprint as a single car, taxi, or Uber. They’re driverless, electric and very cheap to operate vs other forms...
We don’t have definitive proof, but there’s evidence that some of the glacial ice on Mars is relatively pure, at least not permafrost or frozen...
From Michigan although the legal situation hasn’t changed and the federal lawsuit continues I see a surprising number of Teslas in the northern...
Tesla really should have a feature for owners who want to opt in to simply flag every AP anomaly they experience and add verbal comments to...
Fremont is in the middle of a major expansion that will about double it’s area from 5 million to 10 million sq.ft. Tesla has also been adding...
It would work even better with a Tesla where the battery pack makes the side of the frame more rigid. Check out the side impact videos of Tesla’s...
If it’s fully drive by wire as I’d expect all future Tesla’s to be, then the steering would be entirely under software control and could behave...
I think part of reason for elevators in street parking spaces is to fit the system into dense urban areas without much disruption. I read a lot...
Autonomy will take over pretty rapidly without the need for moral arguments. Making it mandatory will probably get some pushback. That will...
Like Uber, TN will have to roll out in well defined service areas because they need saturation coverage to be sure customers can get a ride...
I'm inclined to think self driving vehicles will operate under the control of a cloud based fleet management system. This will make vehicle to...
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2017/08/21/tesla-lawmakers/104826286/ The lawsuit in Federal Court advances by an important step.
The distinctions do get kind of muddled. Cars are now almost all unibody construction and trucks body on chassis. So SUVs are trucks and...
Tesla and Musk follow innovations in batteries very closely. Musk is a generalist but this tech is basically what he'd been accepted to the PhD...
One issue with adapting it to subway lines is their being built with stations along the line rather than on a bypass. Generally traffic can't flow...
[MEDIA] Here's the Thyssen-Krupp horizontal-vertical elevator concept. Seems a pretty good fit for a pod that can travel on its own on the...
[MEDIA] Here's the Hyperloop Dubai video depicting similar Pods loading onto and off a Hyperloop transport then going on the street on their own...
Why? How is this any different from a city bus or streetcar where passengers can stand? I think the lack or bars or straps for people to hold onto...
This seems to be an emerging idea. A Pod is something about the same footprint as a car or SUV but boxy, autonomous and able to act as unit load...
Skates carrying cars no. Pods yes. Pods have every bit the capacity of city buses or light rail but more efficiently used. There's the same...
Thanks for posting the pics. They capture the whole idea. The exact size isn't important...it's about the same footprint as a full size car or SUV...
Even Elon misses things occasionally. He's got enough to think about. The VW minibus notion was always kind of pointless except in the same...
There's a big difference between service areas based on population density. Areas with low to moderate population density that often don't have...
I think the intention is to move to a true "skate" which requires complete drive by wire including eliminating the steering column. When they get...
https://engineering.purdue.edu/AAECourses/aae450/2017/spring/docs/AAE%20450-Project%20Destiny.pdf Here's a detailed paper from an engineering...
Have you checked out this company? Wrightspeed Range-Extended Electric Powertrains The founder was with Tesla in the early days. They specifically...
It might be a use for old phones sitting in a drawer to repurpose them as full time dash cams. As long as it's permanently there it avoids most...
All traffic in the tunnel system would be on the skateboards which are just slightly bigger, slightly modified versions of the skateboards all...
Very cool :) This incorporates a lot of other interesting stuff. It uses a Skateboard like Tesla vehicles are working toward being based on. In...
Second stage reuse doesn't have to be universal to be very valuable to SpaceX. It would have more margin to play with on FH flights. SpaceX is...